english - Alphabet splitting extraordinaire!

Here are three ways of splitting the letters of the English alphabet into two groups:

1) ABDOPQR; CEFGHIJKLMNSTUVWXYZ

2) BCDGJOPQRSU; AEFHIKLMNTVWXYZ

3) DFHIJLNOPRTUVXYZ; ABCEGKMQSW

In each case, the first collection of letters can be described simply using a one-word 'catchphrase' while the second collection is simply all those letters not in the first collection. First you need to find all the three catchphrases (this should be the only challenging part). In each case, determine how many distinct letters of the catchphrase are in the first and how many in the second collection of letters. You'll then have three pairs of numbers, and your final task is to find which of these three pairs is the odd one out.

What I really hope to achieve in this question is to get a collection of interesting alphabet-splitting puzzles, so that they're not all spread around the site in many different questions. The bit about catchphrases is just to unify this into a single puzzle so that I don't get people telling me I should split this into 3 distinct questions. After this has been solved (which shouldn't take long), I'll throw open the question to editing and we can incorporate all the interesting ways of splitting the alphabet that anyone can think of, and perhaps change or remove the catchphrase and odd-one-out parts of the question. When editing a sequence into the question, please edit the answer into warspyking's now-accepted answer.

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Your Puzzles;

4) ABCDEGJLMOQTUZ; FHIKNPRSVWXY

5) EITSANHURDMWG; VLFBKOPJXCZYQ

6) ABCIJOPQRSTUWY; DEFGHKLMNOVZ

7) COPSUVWXZ; ABDEFGHIJKLMNQRTY

8) AHIMOTUVWXY; BCDEFGJKLNPQRSZ

9) ΑΒΕΗΙΚΜΝΟΡΤΧΥΖ; CDFGJLQRSUVW

10) AEFHILMNORSX; BCDGJKPQTUVWYZ

11) HJKMNUVWXY; ABCDEFGILOPQRSTZ

12) BDEFHIKLMNPRTUVWXYZ; ACGJOQS

13) EFPTY; ABCDGHIJKLMNOQRSUVWXZ

14) BCFHIKNOPSUVWY; ADEGJLMQRTXZ

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If you think this is a silly way of posing a question, please tell me and give me a chance to improve it before hitting the downvote button. Let's be proactive here! :-)

Edit: I just discovered that more or less exactly the same idea appears in Schott's Miscellany. His list is entitled 'Letter Traits' and is on page 76.

Answer

Final Answer!

Sequences;

1. ABDOPQR; CEFGHIJKLMNSTUVWXYZ


2. BCDGJOPQRSU; AEFHIKLMNTVWXYZ


3. DFHIJLNOPRTUVXYZ; ABCEGKMQSW

ANSWERS (credit to squeamish ossifrage for the 3rd answer):

1) All these letters have enclosed space within the letters; Catchphrase holes.

2) All these letters have curves in them; Catchphrase curves.

3) All letters that correspond with composite numbers from 1 through 26; Catchphrase composite.

NUMBERS:

{1, 4}, {4, 2}, {4, 4}

FINAL ANSWER:

The odd one out is the 1st pair {1, 4} because the other pairs are {even, even} while this one's first number is odd.

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OTHER SEQUENCES:

4. ABCDEGJLMOQTUZ; FHIKNPRSVWXY


5. EITSANHURDMWG; VLFBKOPJXCZYQ


6. ABCIJOPQRSTUWY; DEFGHKLMNOVZ


7. COPSUVWXZ; ABDEFGHIJKLMNQRTY


8. AHIMOTUVWXY; BCDEFGJKLNPQRSZ


9. ΑΒΕΗΙΚΜΝΟΡΤΧΥΖ; CDFGJLQRSUVW


10. AEFHILMNORSX; BCDGJKPQTUVWYZ


11. HJKMNUVWXY; ABCDEFGILOPQRSTZ


12. BDEFHIKLMNPRTUVWXYZ; ACGJOQS



13. EFPTY; ABCDGHIJKLMNOQRSUVWXZ

OTHER ANSWERS:

4) The first group are those letters in the odd columns of a qwerty keyboard.

5) The letters in (in order) the most frequent letters used, sorted just like the morse code sorts them. The latter obviously being least frequent (also in order)

6) The first group are those letters that when spoken in English sound like (or are) words.

7) The first group are those letters that look the same in lower-case as in capitals.

8) The first group are letters which can be reflected in a vertical axis and don't change.

9) The first group are Greek letters (did you notice it?) that look like Latin letters; the second group are Latin letters that don't look like any Greek letter.

10) The first group are letters which names start with a vowel.

11) The first group all have open tops, i.e. they would catch rainwater.

12) The first group all reach the upper left corner of their bounding box.

13) The first group all have an odd number of points where a stroke ends (one or three) where the second group have an even number (zero, two, or four.)